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Charles BurnettA Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge$
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Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge

James Naremore

Print publication date: 2017

Print ISBN-13: 9780520285521

Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2018

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520285521.001.0001

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Beginnings

Beginnings

Chapter:
(p.9) Two Beginnings
Source:
Charles Burnett
Author(s):

James Naremore

Publisher:
University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520285521.003.0002

This chapter discusses Burnett’s childhood and education. He and his family moved from Mississippi to the Watts area of Los Angeles at the end of the 1940s, and in the 1960s he was admitted to the film school at UCLA, where he became a leading figure in the “L.A. Rebellion” of young black filmmakers. The chapter discusses the aims of that group and describes two of Burnett’s early films, Several Friends and The Horse.

Keywords:   Watts, Los Angeles Community College, UCLA, Ethno-communication, L.A. Rebellion, Blaxploitation, Several Friends, The Horse

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